Music-rack.



E. WATKINS & J. C, KEMP?.

MUsIc RAGE.

' APPLIGATION FILED DEU. 18'. 1907.

909,489. Patented Jan. 12,1909.

' WTNESSEQS. NVENTO'FQS'.

UNITED STATES dPATENT OFFICE.

HARRY WATKINS ND JOSEPH C. KEMPF, OF UTGA, NEW YORK.

MUSC-RACK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

`Patented Jan. 12, 1909.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HARRY l/VATKINs and JOSEPH C. KEMPF, citizens of the United States, residing at Utica, in the county of Oneida and State of -N ew York, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Music-R acks, of which the fol owing is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

Our invention relates to an improved music rack, and we declare that the following is a full, clear, concise and exact description thereof, sufficient to enable one skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings in which like reference characters refer to like parts throughout.

The invention, while it is termed a musicrack and is illustrated and described as of that form, is not limited to such specific construction but is adaptable to a variety of forms and uses. its features will appear from the following description in connection with the drawings in which- Figure 1 is an end view of the rack and Fig. 2 a side view. Fig. 3 is a view from the inside, of one of the plates which su port other parts. Fig. 4 is a view of the ower portion, parts being broken away, and Fig. 5 is a view ofthe middle portion on line 5-5 of Fig. 1. As here shown the device is made mostly or wholly of metal.

Referring to the drawings 1, 1 are the legs which are pivotally secured to plate 2, their outward swing being limited by knobs or screws 3 on the plate. The legs are provided with suitable supports or feet 4 which may be in the form of casters if desired. The legs are made of band iron of suitable size for the necessary strength and rigidity and are connected by rungs 5. By means of these run s 5 a shelf 6 is supported between the legs. n one form, Fig. 5, this shelf is made of wood, having secured at its corners, downwardly curved clips 7. The clips on onev of the rungs are pierced at the end for the rung to pass through and secure the shelf in pivotal engagement on the rung, so that it can be swung to fold the rack. Those at the opposite side of the shelf are, however, open at the end to rest u on the corresponding rung and support t e shelf in use. In a different construction, Fifr. 4, these clips are formed in a strip of meta extending from one end of the rung to the other, the clips in one strip being bored and the other open as before. The

shelf 6 is in that case made up of a lurality of light rods, Fig. 4, connected at tielr ends with the strip. The shelf, with its clips, may

perform. the office of the knobs'or stops 2 on the plate. It will be evident that the shelf, when disconnected from the rungs, may be folded up against the legs when folded, for packing and shipping of the device.

On the plate 2 is fixed the upwardly extending frame or bar which consists of a piece of iron bar 8 bent to conform to the desired design and having suitable ornamental scrolls 9 thereon. The ends of the bar 8 are open to rest on rod 10 which connects the plates rigidly. A screw 11 is passed through the bar 8 and into the plate 2 to secure the bar or frame in lace. Brass or other suitable rods 12 are ed in the rod 10 and in the transverse portion of the frame or rod 8 at suitable intervals to form a sufficient body to the frame. The rod 1() also has short bars or fingers 13 mounted thereon to form a bottom to the contents of the rack and which extend far enough to cross the plane of the wings of the frame, though not so shown in every instance.

On the plate, and shown on each side of the center frame, is pivotally suppprted at 14, a frame or wing 15 formed of a ar of suitable size bent to proper shape, which may thus be swung up a ainst the center frame, its outward swing eing limited by knob 16 on the frame. We are thus enabled to do away with chains or cords connecting the wing at its ends to the center frame Aas is frequently done but which is very inconvenient as the rack can receive sheets of only a certain maximum size and the chains are apt to tear the sheets. The wings 15 have cross bars 17 and rods 18 mounted therein and in the frame 15 forming a body of the frame to support the sheets. At their outer ends the rods 18 may have ornamented knobs 19. The rods 1S extend below bars 17 far enough to intersect the plane of fingers 13. Thus the wings 15 form on each side of the center frame su orts for sheets or books or pictures and the fiffe which are prevented from slipping out by the meeting of the planes of the wings and the fingers, and such articles, even of larger size than the area of the wings can be put in the rack or removed therefrom without any danger of tearing.

Having described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A rack having laterally swinging frames mounted on plates, a bar connectin plates and fingers transverse thereo the plane ofthe lingers intersecting the planes of the frames, substantially as described.

2. A rack having a central vertical rigid frame, andlaterally swinging frames mounted on plates, a bar connecting the lates, members projecting laterally on eac side of the bar, the plane of said members intersecting the lanes of the frames, substantially as descri ed 3. A rack consisting of a frame rigidly mounted on plates,V legs supporting the the plates, and folding wings mounted on the plates, the plates having means to limit the outward swing of the wings, and members mounted adjacent the bottom of the wings and extending across the lanes of the wings, substantially as described).

In testimony whereof we afi-iX our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

HARRY WATKINS. JOSEPH C. KEMPF.

Wlitnesses:

E. T. DE GIORGI, HENRY M. Lovn. 

